Characterization of myocardial scars: Electrophysiological imaging correlates in a porcine infarct model

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1060-1067

  Nakahara, Shiro ^a   Vaseghi, Marmar ^a   Ramirez, Rafael J ^a   Fonseca, Carissa G ^b   Lai, Chi K ^b   Finn, J Paul ^a,b   Mahajan, Aman ^a   Boyle, Noel G ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a,b  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging; Late potentials; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION LOCALIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CICATRIX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; SWINE;

EID: 79959944025     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.02.029     Document Type: Article

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